WH semester 2 Finals Flashcards
Blitzkrieg
Lightning war
Holocaust
The mass slaughter of civilians especially Jews
D-day
Also known as operation overlord/ Battle of Normandy
June 6th 1944
Hiroshima
Japanese city, 1st atomic bomb dropped
Nagasaki
Japanese city, second atomic bomb dropped
Nuremberg Trials
22 Nazi leaders tried and convicted
Dwight D Eisenhower
Planned and supervised two military campaigns for WW2
Allied powers WW1
France, the UK, Russia, and Japan.
Allied powers ww2
The US, Britain, and the Soviet Union
Dunkirk
The rescue of more than 338,000 British and French soldiers from the French port of Dunkirk
Battle of Britain
Demonstrated the Nazis weren’t invincible
Pearl Harbour
Japans attack on Honolulu Hawaii
Vladimir Lenin
Founder of the Russian Communist Party
Mao Zedong
Chinese leader and founder of the People’s republic of China
Harry Truman
33rd US president ordered the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.
Central Powers
Germany, Austria- Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire.
Poland
During ww2 they fought alongside western allies
Island hopping
Skipping over highly defended islands to seize lightly defended ones
Battle of the Bulge
A battle that turned the war in Hitlers favor
Joseph Stalin
Dictator in Russia during ww2
Atomic bomb
The most powerful bomb ever made, dropped on Japan to end ww2
United Nations
An international governing body made to increase political and economic cooperation
Johann Gutenberg
Designed and built the first mechanical printing press in Europe
Charles Degaule
Led French forces in ww2. Became French president right after the war.
Kaiser Whilhelm the 2
Gave Germany a bad reputation for militarism. Helped set the course for Germany’s entry into WW1
David Lloyd George
Leader of the UK during WW1
League of Nations
An international organization to promote international cooperation and to achieve international peace and security
